That Type of Mom: A Novel

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:
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“Together with his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam’s second novel is each heartfelt and thought-provoking.”
   — Celeste Ng, writer of Little Fires In all places

From the bestselling writer of Depart the World Behind, a novel concerning the households we struggle to construct and people we struggle to maintain

Like many first-time moms, Rebecca Stone finds herself each deeply in love together with her new child son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the calls for of motherhood together with her personal aspirations and feeling completely alone within the course of, she reaches out to the one individual on the hospital who presents her any actual assist—Priscilla Johnson—and begs her to return house with them as her son’s nanny.

Priscilla’s presence shortly does as a lot to shake up Rebecca’s notion of the world because it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and thru their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the primary time, the blind spots of her personal privilege. She feels profoundly related to the lady who basically taught her what it means to be a mom. When Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps ahead to undertake the child. However she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mom with a black son. As she quickly learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of studying the best way to elevate two youngsters whom she loves with equal ferocity, however whom the world is set to deal with in a different way.

Written with the heat and psychological acuity that outlined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a exceptional novel concerning the lives we select, and the lives which are chosen for us.